Our dining room is filled with the heft and history of a solid wood dining table that was custom made for my grandparents and brought across the country from California to Georgia when I got married.The wood gleams, even though the high-gloss varnish is beginning to crack in places, and I like to imagine it glints with the remembered laughter of hundreds of family celebrations that took place with my loved ones sitting around it. It was at that table that my mother and her twin celebrated their Sweet 16 and, decades later, my own sister snuck her shrimp cocktail to me during appetizer courses at our grandparents’ house. It’s a one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable heirloom and one of my most prized possessions.In the living room adjacent to the dining room sits the newest addition to my small but meaningful collection of prized heirloom furniture: a diminutive green secretary desk with the tiny green chair that goes with it. Family heirlooms are typically free and, actually, there’s usua …
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